Riis lifeguard in nationalsQueens lifeguard Christian Foti is competing in the 2016 USLA National Lifeguard Championships in Hermosa Beach, California this week. This will be his third time competing in the championships and...

Yankees Change in Philosophy Should Be Applauded About a week ago, after the news that Arodlis Chapman had been traded to the Chicago Cubs, I thought there was a pretty good chance the Yankees would be done dealing. They traded a valuable yet rep...

Yankees want the best of both worldsAfter Sunday’s victory over the San Francisco Giants, the Yankees concluded their critical ten game home stand out of the All-Star Break with a record of 6-4. A solid home stand when you consider t...

New York Empire ready to kick off inaugural seasonThe Mylan World Team Tennis squad, coached by Patrick McEnroe, will compete in six home matches at historic Forest Hills Stadium at The West Side Tennis Club starting July 31. The highlights of eac...

Berardi makes return to ECCChristina Berardi will join Queens College as head softball coach after serving as assistant coach for five seasons at Southern New Hampshire University. “I am excited for the opportunity to lead t...

St. Joe’s to add men’s swim squadSt. Joseph’s College has announced the addition of a varsity men’s swimming team to begin competition in 2016-17. The addition of men’s swimming increases the NCAA Division III varsity offerings on...

Malik Boothe has lost time, but not hopeOver five years ago, Malik Boothe was in the middle of a history making time at St. John’s University. It was an improbable run that sent the Red Storm to their first NCAA tournament in nearly a de...

Yanks Last Stand Won’t Change A Thing in 2016A few weeks ago, the Yankees embarked on a nine-game stretch at the end of June against the Colorado Rockies and Minnesota Twins. Two sub-.500 baseball teams. I remember specifically writing a colu...

Storm sophs win regional titleA pair of Red Storm rising sophomores claimed a prestigious title on Tuesday morning, as Madeline McCracken and Samie Scaffidi were part of the McLean 96 Green team that won the US Youth Soccer Reg...

The King & Queens of ArmsThe New York Arm Wrestling Association (NYAWA) announced that the 39th Annual NYC Big Apple Grapple International Arm Wrestling Championships will be held on Sunday, July 31, at 1 p.m. at Cheap Sho...

Midwood baseball honored at City HallThe Midwood High School varsity baseball team received citations from the City Council for earning the title of 2016 All-City Champions. (Photo: Jeff Reed/City Council)

Brooklyn bragging rights on the line at BarclaysFormer two-division world champion Paulie Malignaggi is set to defend Brooklyn’s World Championship Belt in a ten-round welterweight showdown after being challenged on Twitter by fellow Brooklyn-na...

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By Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. derivatives regulator will move on from reforms undertaken after the 2007-09 financial crisis to a new focus on U.S. competitiveness and the potential for shocks to the global $710 trillion swaps markets under President-elect Donald Trump. J. Christopher Giancarlo, in line to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission once Trump is inaugurated on Jan. 20, has said the agency should look beyond mandates from the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law to current trends in financial markets. As the sole Republican on the CFTC, Giancarlo will at least temporarily run the commission where he is currently the minority member.

By Mitch Phillips LONDON (Reuters) - More than 1,000 Russian competitors across more than 30 sports were involved in an institutional conspiracy to conceal positive doping tests as Moscow 'hijacked international sport', an independent WADA report said on Friday. The second and final part of the report for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) by Canadian sports lawyer Richard McLaren provided exhaustive evidence of an elaborate state-sponsored doping scheme operated by Russia's Sports Ministry. "We are now able to confirm a cover-up that dates back until at least 2011 that evolved from uncontrolled chaos to an institutionalized and disciplined medal-winning conspiracy," McLaren told a news conference on Friday.